alizing the inadequacys of the current situation. It has been reported that ho first started his political the!
             orizing in his teens. At this early age, young Thanh realized that in order for an insurrection to be successful there must be a merger of more organized, inellectual revolts in large cities, and the small rural revolts in the villages. Hos formalschooling was sporadic, though documents indicate that from the ages of 14 to 18 he attended a French run school in Hue. He was next known to have taught at a private school in Phan Thiet, and later went to a maritime school in Saigon.
             In 1911 under the name Ba, he got work on a passenger liner Amiral Louche Treville as a galley boy. It would be thirty years before he found his way back to Vietnam. He would work abord the ship for the next three years traveling around to various European cities, African ports and the U.S. cities of Boston and New York before settling in London and finally Paris. It was these years abroad that were absolutely key to Ho's metamorphosis from patriot to modern revolutionary. Living in London for several years working for the famous French chef Escoffier at the Carelton Hotel, he was introduced to activism with the The Overseas Workers' Union, a secretly anti colonial group largly under Chinese leadership. In London he heard and read a lot about Irish political uprisings. he went to Paris in 1916 where he found a job touching up photos, and settled for some time. It was while in Paris that Ho became familiar with the works of the German political theorist !
             Carl Marx and his socialist theorys. Taking the name Nguyen Ai Quoc (Nguyen the Patriot) he began his career as an active socialist. He established a reputation as a pamphleteer among leftist circle
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